New Resources for Women in STEM Careers Lynn Reha and Lisa Matejka, ICSPSLynn Reha and Lisa Matejka, ICSPS

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Mission

We assist professionals in gaining the knowledge and skills needed for helping every learner to succeed through

professional development, publications, and technical assistance.

Illinois Center for Specialized Professional Support

ICSPS Illinois Career and Technical Education projects are developed through grants from Illinois State Board of Education and Illinois Community College Board and funded 100% through Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006.

Non-traditional jobs are attractive to women because they generally offer higher entry-level wages and a career ladder with pay between $20 and $30 per hour.1

1http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/nontra2008.htm

Growth in the economy is projected to expand employment in many of these occupations and secondly, there will be strong demand for workers in these fields due to projected retirements or transfers of current workers to other occupations.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau,

Nontraditional Occupations for Women in 2008.

High wage High demand

STEM Careers are good for women.

Eighty percent of Fortune 1000 STEM executives report that their companies face challenges in hiring adequate numbers of women and minorities for STEM positions and 95% believe the US will lose its global leadership in science and technology due to a shortage of STEM talent.

Bayer Facts of Science Education Survey, 2008

There was a 79% decline in the number of incoming undergraduate women interested in majoring in Computer Science between 2000 and 2008.

National Center for Women in Information Technology, 2008

Women needed Recruitment vital

Women are good for STEM careers.

Doing What Works

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STEM Equity Pipeline/NAPE

Success Has No Gender

Could This Be Your Life?Could This Be Your Life?

Dot Divas

Engineer Your Life

National Girls Collaborative Project

Lynn Reha lcreha@ilstu.edu

Lisa Matejka lkmatej@ilstu.edu

Illinois Center for Specialized Professional Support

www.icsps.ilstu.edu

THANK YOU.

This presentation will be available online www.icsps.ilstu.edu

QUESTIONS?

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National Girls Collaborative Project http://www.ngcproject.org/directory/index.cfm

Doing What Works

http://www.dww.ed.gov/topic/?T_ID=1 STEM Equity Pipeline

http://www.stemequitypipeline.org/Default.aspx Success Has No Gender

http://home.cod.edu/academics/specialprograms/nontraditional

Could This Be Your Life http://www.icsps.ilstu.edu/projects/index_ctbyl.html

Dot Divas http://www.dotdiva.org Engineer Your Life http://www.engineeryourlife.org/http

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